It is the ultimate warning. With the death penalty we can try and stop crime. The death penalty is a legalized process and has been in and out of practice since 1608.
Death penalty: The punishment of execution, administered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime.
Capital crime: Rape, torture, treason, kidnapping, murder. According to the LA times the death penalty specifically in California would practice on those convicted from "special circumstances" such as multiple murders; murder by bomb or poison; murder during an escape; murder of a police officer, prosecutor, judge, or witness; and political assassination.
If the criminal knows that the justice system will not stop at putting him to death, then the system appears to have more power over the killer. Our justice system sanctions those who violate laws with criminal penalties and it is possible to affirm the death penalty once received, there always is a process, they do not just kill right away.
Written in the Bible, Exodus 21:24 " an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, and a foot for a foot." It would only make sense to say a death for a death. This is the principle that a person who has injured another person is penalized to a similar degree. This is a deterrent for future killers to know that if they take a life, they may loose their own. The death penalty is the ultimate warning and is seen as an advantage. This could ultimately stop crime.
Quote from the Supreme Court 06/01/14: "Indeed, the decision that capital punishment may be the appropriate sanction in extreme cases is an expression of the community's belief that certain crimes are themselves so serious that the only adequate response may be the penalty of death."
Not only did the murderer torture and kill someone, but they also took away a families loved one. By not practicing what is legal in our state, it is showing more sympathy for criminals than it does victims. In the US, the death penalty is limited under the 8th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Death penalty: The punishment of execution, administered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime.
Capital crime: Rape, torture, treason, kidnapping, murder. According to the LA times the death penalty specifically in California would practice on those convicted from "special circumstances" such as multiple murders; murder by bomb or poison; murder during an escape; murder of a police officer, prosecutor, judge, or witness; and political assassination.
If the criminal knows that the justice system will not stop at putting him to death, then the system appears to have more power over the killer. Our justice system sanctions those who violate laws with criminal penalties and it is possible to affirm the death penalty once received, there always is a process, they do not just kill right away.
Written in the Bible, Exodus 21:24 " an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, and a foot for a foot." It would only make sense to say a death for a death. This is the principle that a person who has injured another person is penalized to a similar degree. This is a deterrent for future killers to know that if they take a life, they may loose their own. The death penalty is the ultimate warning and is seen as an advantage. This could ultimately stop crime.
Quote from the Supreme Court 06/01/14: "Indeed, the decision that capital punishment may be the appropriate sanction in extreme cases is an expression of the community's belief that certain crimes are themselves so serious that the only adequate response may be the penalty of death."
Not only did the murderer torture and kill someone, but they also took away a families loved one. By not practicing what is legal in our state, it is showing more sympathy for criminals than it does victims. In the US, the death penalty is limited under the 8th Amendment to the United States Constitution.